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751.
by Flimm 14y ago
Exactly. Good policies are worthless without good execution.
752.
by Flimm 14y ago
SSL includes a feature called client-side certificates: http://pilif.github.io/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clien...
753.
by Flimm 14y ago
Based on the Wikipedia article, it seems to me that Litecoin is only an iterative improvement on Bitcoin. Why are people choosing to use it?
754.
by Flimm 14y ago
Actually, they do take into account differences in cost of living. The basket of goods used to calculate the PPP rate includes things like cars, vacuum cleaners and electricity. (I don't know the details, TBH) See my other reply to kalterst
755.
by Flimm 14y ago
Believe it or not, this takes into account living expenses. Currencies are not converted using current exchange rates, but using PPP (purchasing power parity). According to these figures, it takes the median average American on a salary of
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If you earn more than $31k a year, you're in the top 1% richest people globally(globalrichlist.com)
10 points by Flimm 14y ago|6 comments
757.
by Flimm 14y ago
The NonCommercial part makes it not open source, and not libre software. Both the OSI and the FSF clearly state that FLOSS software has to allow commercial use for it to qualify.
758.
by Flimm 14y ago
If you read two resumes that were identical in every way, except that one had experience listed and the other had none, wouldn't you go for the first one? If not, what's the point of listing experience at all?
759.
by Flimm 14y ago
Are you sure you don't have survivorship bias? How much effort have you made to seek out the ones that didn't come back and ask them why?
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Why is nobody using SSL client certificates? (2008)(pilif.github.io)
1 points by Flimm 14y ago|0 comments
761.
by Flimm 14y ago
No, it doesn't. Social shame does not imply lack of conviction or misinformation.
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by Flimm 14y ago
Also, it's more private. With a native browser implementation, you don't communicate with persona.org every time you log in to a website, you only have to trust your browser to store your cached authentication credential.
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by Flimm 14y ago
That, and a better user experience. Have a look at this screenshot, doesn't it seem obviously more attractive and usable than a pop-up? http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/firefo...
764.
by Flimm 14y ago
For this to be adopted, you need to have at least one major email provider implementing it, at least one major browser, and at least one major website. If you don't have the three corners of the triangle, people will inevitably judge Person
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Google Maps, Windows Phone, and an avoidable mess(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Flimm 14y ago|0 comments
766.
by Flimm 14y ago
Even if people are fundamentally good, someone still has to gather the data necessary to decide what a reasonable limit is, and someone has to advertise that limit. The next step is to turn the limit into a law so that it has an effect even
767.
by Flimm 14y ago
No, open source does not have to be free of charge, according to the OSI. The first clause clearly says: "The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software"
768.
by Flimm 14y ago
From what I've seen, the difference between Perl 5 and 6 is much greater than the difference between Python 2 and 3. For this reason, I have very little hope for Perl 6.
769.
by Flimm 14y ago
Link to said rant? I'm interested in this, having a group of lawyers write a common legal text seems like a good thing to me, for both software and art.
770.
by Flimm 14y ago
It means users don't have to create and remember a new password for every site they register to, which has security problems.
771.
by Flimm 14y ago
But web crawlers generate orders of magnitude more traffic than regular users.
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by Flimm 14y ago
For me, it works, but it makes each slide an entry in my browser's history, which I hate.
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by Flimm 14y ago
This is actually a response to some Ubuntu contributors very publicly leaving the project, and not to criticism from users. This is the blog post that started it off: http://doctormo.org/2013/03/06/ubuntu-membership-2/ And here some the m
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by Flimm 14y ago
"Launchpad is free-software by name only". No, it is actually free as in freedom software. I think you meant to say that it's free by license only.
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Jason Russell: Kony2012 and the fight for truth(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by Flimm 14y ago|0 comments
776.
by Flimm 14y ago
In fact, I solved that level using only 'git revert' commands, which I don't think was the intended solution. And the displayed solution isn't complete: it asks the user to perform an interactive rebase. (I'm not complaining, just feedback.
777.
by Flimm 14y ago
C1' has two meanings, one is the result of a rebase, and one is the result of a revert. I stared at level 2 of "master the rebase, Luke" for a while before I realised this. I think these two things should be have different notations (maybe
778.
by Flimm 14y ago
Please improve the error message to at least tell me what window sizes and zoom levels are supported.
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by Flimm 14y ago
Neither long flags or short flags should change meaning. I'm not sure where you got the idea that short flags do.
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by Flimm 14y ago
In a lot of countries, it's impossible to put something in the public domain immediately.

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